Most email users only know webmail – like Yahoo, Hotmail and Google. It’s called webmail because web browser e.g. Firefox or Internet Explorer is used to access your mailbox. This is fine with broadband connection. But if you have a dialup connection, this is inefficient and costly since you are charged per minute.

Before Yahoo mail became popular, we were using email reader programs where you can compose and read your email offline.

If you want to try this option, you have to do the following:

Download and install a email client to your PC like Mozilla Thunderbird see Products at http://www.firefox.com